my extremes are a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to cause a report on our. anti fracking rage in romania clashes erupted between police and locals who are furious at the prospect of american energy giant chevron drilling for shale gas nearby and we report from the scene of the violence plus. the doors open this is my. european politicians poor oil on the flames of the protests in ukraine as they reiterated their support for the crowds anti-government sentiment. in the world continues to grieve over the death of nelson mandela r t looks at south africa's future and how dark shadows from the past lead it some whites to fear for their lives.

and broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is r t i'm sean thomas glad to have you with us now an anti fracking a protest in northeast romania has turned violent clashes broke out between police and locals who are trying to stop the u.s. oil giant chevron from drilling for shale gas in the area protesters feel that fracking will damage the environment and contaminate ground water supplies are to. rest. good lord we're here in congestion this is just moments after a very tense clashes between protesters who are against chevron conducting exploration for shale gas drilling here in this area in northeastern mania what you see behind me over there is actually the chevron site. protesters

had ran across the street they broke down the perimeter of the chevron location tore down the fences and entered the area there were actually inside the chevron test exploration area these units riot police officers had been called into the area this is when things very much escalated and we had several protesters arrested there were options between the police and the demonstrators and actually if we pan over here you can see people very upset about what's happening here with chevron and. these protesters who have been camped out here for over a month earlier that's the count was actually broken up by riot police officers today saturday was supposed to be a major protest there and they're still trying to get chevron to leave because although chevron in october announced it was seizing operations the work had begun . these police officers are not going anywhere as you can see they're trying to

keep the protesters contained to this area so that they don't break out again and go on to the chevron site now we did see several arrests some people had been injured they were taken out in medical vans we don't know exactly how many and again it's a tense tense environment these people are very unhappy with the conduct of the police not just today but earlier and they're very unhappy that chevron is continuing these operations they feel that although chevron says that it's trying to do this in a responsible way the people here feel like they haven't been consulted they feel like their point of view isn't being taken into consideration and we have to keep in mind that this is a farming area people here rely. on the land to survive if the water does get contaminated which is something that they fear will happen as a result of the fracking their very existence is threatened which is why they're so frustrated with the situation. tense environment the demonstration continues it's unclear what will make these protesters leave as you can see if we turn around they're sitting down they're staying their ground they don't want to leave this

area. chevron to comment on the situation in romania the energy giant says it has halted operations amid what it called unlawful and violent protest or activities in . chevron also says that it wants to work in a safe and environmental environmentally responsible manner under the terms agreed with the authorities earlier and. campaigner and he. talked to my colleague kevin owen about the controversial drilling technique he says authorities worldwide stay silent about it precisely because of the possible hazards. there's no regulation going to be in this country or in any other oh you're going away all this specifically designed to break you like this industry because they know who will take home and it will be regulated is there an exaggeration of the potential problem say are we looking at fact difficult to quantify you know the recent school cd dealing with the vagaries of the geology and it's basically the whole realm of

the are no fracking for going for thirteen years or more that started large scale large scale at the turn of the century do you feel you've lost your battle and when the police are there supposedly to protect and serve the community through all this how do you that being deployed going governments to protect and serve the interest of the big businesses we should basically back in the government there that's the situation we've got in that is why we've got people off you know we can't rely on the police to protect not you received just protect our own communities by this sort of action it was seen you know in my unit of the world you know stories were from family that if you where it goes people are going to be up in arms about it because we know that we can't we lowing on our governments we can't we don't the police to protect our communities from these threats. many fear the substances used in fracking will accumulate in the soil and polluted groundwater and even the

air while most of the chemicals will remain in the soil for years and has claimed that there are over a thousand documented cases of water contamination near drilling sites and that could impact people's health through sensory and respiratory damage we will continue to follow the standoff between chevron and the locals and congestion and we'll have the latest updates for you both on air and on mine. it delegates can of your own peace has spoken to the crowds in kiev yet again further fueling the public protest in ukraine the protestors have three more days to decamp from government buildings scott is in kiev the delegation met with opposition leaders and mingled with the crowd but they didn't meet any representatives of the government of course the government the survived a vote of no confidence that despite this results and it hasn't stopped the

delegation backing calls for us not election there should be a discussion between the different forces. around table under the conditions would be to go to the movies or include all those who have trained for a problem well the opposition continue their blockade of certain government buildings with a deadline set by the government for them to be out expiring on tuesday on the delegation support for the opposition comes despite ukraine's prime minister calling for outside interference to stop and similar tamia slate the e.u. delegation condemning what they describe as russian pressure on kiev where the protest is set once again on sunday when the opposition organizers hope that one million people from all over ukraine will descend on the capital. now joining the european lawmakers was former georgian president mikheil saakashvili he also voiced his support for the protest from the stage in central kiev and this from the same

man who ordered a brutal crackdown on opposition rallies in his own country just two years ago this is how those who wanted saakashvili to resign were treated. r t spoke to political commentator alexander cross off about the tendency of some politicians to stand aside by side with the ukrainian opposition and he says it is simply unacceptable. my jeannette friend the ukrainian or russian or. diplomats or former politicians or politicians will take part in any demonstration against the e.u. in all across or severely europe and that would cause an uproar the point probably even in the western countries going to the united nations and asking for a meeting of the security council because that is blatant interference this isn't nothing to do with people collar as they play some politicians like to say about

that under the rule of law does not involve foreign diplomats and foreign politicians interfering and basically provoking this violence like it's happening in ukraine. journalist martin seafoods followed ukraine's recent history says the bitter divide among its people would only deepen if the e.u. association deal happened i think it would be a nightmare come true in the long term ukraine and the european union have a locks again from increased relationships with each other but the package that the e.u. was proposing and the price you create would pay severed ties with russia and the east bloc would in the short term cause a very we'll drop of standard of living for the ukrainian people much greater energy price costs and the european union and european commission given their own financial woes would not be in the position to give ukraine the necessary financial support it would need in these situations the european union has major problems

within its own area that it really must resolve before it can really new its all first to reach out to nations like ukraine and i think there really needs to be a fundamental reassessment in brussels of what ukraine needs which has not been adequately recognized in brussels. now meanwhile an investigation is underway into allegations of brutality from both police and pro e.u. activists that unfolded last week. reports. it grew well i mean now why don't you call the worst moment was when i saw people being beaten on the ground at my feet they were just kids and i couldn't do anything about it and it was terrible it must never happen again. the night of november thirtieth when peaceful protests in the heart of kiev were broken up by ukraine special riot police force dozens and up in hospitals images of police beating defenseless people emerged on the internet the. was

the next day it was the police on the receiving end of the violence but at the hands of a mob and not the peaceful protesters who were dispersed just the day before. i got hit by either a brick or a piece of pavement score in the face it's hard to tell because everything was flying no one could predict it would go like this that there would be rocks bricks most of cocktails. i was scared for my units who were there because it was totally unexpected right in front of all of this there were these boys eighteen nineteen years old who serve in the army and everything was flying at them rocks molotov cocktails. these men are among the officers still in hospital a week after the attack some received injuries severe enough to leave them disabled or to convince them to leave the force but both. i determined to return to service

and see the don't have any animosity towards the crowd on independence square i can understand the people they want to express their opinion. people have the right to voice their opinion but without breaking the law it would not be an overstatement to say that many people here. are any mean number one especially after last week's intense clashes what's there is a putting out there that the police force were simply following the instructions they have received and it's those who gave the orders that should be held responsible for the violence. that are recordings on the internet of the orders that received an act as a pawn to clear the we must create a parliamentary commission and find the person who blew it all up and hold them criminally responsible i'm sure the orders came from someone higher than the head of police. as the protests enter their third week the tension is palpable no one

wants a repeat of last week's nightmare but a resolution requires calmer efforts from both sides among people whose patience is already wearing worryingly thin. r.t. . we've been following events in and around ukraine online you can find out what president yushchenko which involved me to putin spoke about during their meeting in sochi at r t v dot com where we will also unravel some of the speculation. from a prison cell to terrorist cell the u.k. crackdown on hate preaching behind bars in an attempt to stop impressionable brits from being radicalized plus. click here to here. want to move to paris why he might have to prepare yourself for a shock we have a look at the downside of living in a dream city that and much more after a short break you're watching r.t.

. so the workers more of their lives for their pension account there's cash that you can be used to leverage all kinds of synthetic obligations on wall street so that money has to be stolen clearly whether you're in the u.k. or detroit whether you're birmingham manchester sheffield or detroit you know pensions are up for grabs from the shysters on wall street led by the chinese there's a number ten and number eleven of boris johnson they want to take their money and they want to turn it into all kinds of flora and fauna the rivet is spinning the globe giving it up for doing nothing but when it does. this immediately goes so we need to be. part of the scene motion see to the. party there's a goal. for shoes that no one is there with to get that you deserve answers from.

politics. are today. then welcome back you're watching our team now tens of thousands of people are expected to join global leaders past and present at nelson mandela's funeral on sunday but while the morning continues among the country's white minority who are afraid of a new wave of apartheid and bloodshed this time aimed at them many doubt whether the post mandela south africa will stick to the ideals of equality and reconciliation that he championed as artie's policy or reports. for many years

south africans in particular have been asking themselves the question what happens when mandela pos is on and for a long time there was a war we that everything he stood for which was essentially bringing white and black south africans to give it would disappear when he dies this question has become less urgent as the years have passed on and a new generation of south africans has come to the fore but certainly there are pockets of particularly white south africans who are today afraid now i visited the community of plain fun tain which is a white on cave they you find only off the condos now these are white south africans who can trace the roots back to european cities who came in the sixteen hundreds you need special permission to enter the area there are security guards everywhere there are statues paying tribute to the founders of a party which was some africa's legal system of discrimination between blacks and whites people there justified the existence of such enclaves as merely

a way of preserving their history the culture their language they argue against any kind of claims of racism we feel strongly about our identity and we want to protect that and preserve it this together with the fear that some white of economists feel has caused some to put in place contingency plans now there's a group called the state land as they estimate that their figures are around eighty to one hundred thousand people and they are all linked through mobile phones in such a way that if in any time they believe a genocide happens and they do believe that a genocide is coming against white south africans they can then mobilize him selves and move to an area where they will be able to both protect themselves and be completely self-sufficient no i visited this community and this is what they had to tell me right now oh we're the stage or little six. little sort of is really the true can schools these white south africans our. are in the minority the majority

really credits mandela with putting the country back from the brink of civil war regardless of the color face they race the creed they've been legion south africans for god mandela as the hero of the struggle against apartheid and seen him as one of the greatest sons this country has ever given birth to. it's a bid to end the sectarian violence in the central african republic french has raised the number of troops there to sixteen hundred the african union has followed suit and is set to more than double its deployment in the country to above six thousand almost four hundred people have been killed in the three days of fierce clashes in the capital bunky paris began to send reinforcements hours after the u.n. authorized the mission to quell a spike in sectarian bloodshed thousands of civilians have fled to the country's main airport seeking refuge from armed groups christian militias loyal to the ousted president are battling muslim rebels who currently control the country

lawrence freeman from the executive intelligence review magazine believes france's domestic problems are behind this latest move. recently friends has become more active militarily and i think the problem with that there france and britain have not given up they are intent on having at the news of some of the resources and wealth of the african countries or so i think france is suffering serious problems at home or the overall devastating collapse. throughout all of europe so many things i think combine to push france forward into somebody as military activity is. more of them recently than we've seen before. the british government has drawn up measures to stifle the spread of extremism follows the brutal murder of a u.k.

soldier by islamists in london the plan includes blocking jihadist material on the web and cracking down on hate speech but as artie's last myth reports that country's jails are also becoming a breeding ground for radicalism. wormwood scrubs prison in west london temporary or longer term home to around fourteen hundred male prisoners apart from the inevitable gang activity and drug taking that goes on inside many prison inmates find religion while they're doing their stretch some are genuine others not so much. those who watch on to and use that religion is an excuse for treatment and we're particularly concerned when there's clear evidence that there are youngsters being radicalized. and forced to join the rest of causation of young a full report prisoners. who then can become a tree machine while evidence from the prison office's union shows prisoners are

necessarily so much finding gods as having shoved in their faces muslim gangs have grown in power and influence in jails all over the country and the prison officers association is concerned that they target vulnerable new arrivals for conversion and that those who are muslims already are being forced into more extremist views you speak to some prisoners or no. food or act on it to get more time. or just to be seen as to be part of a gun culture i've done it for protection i've done it because i was bullied extremists who are ultimately released from behind these walls back into society. russia's aviation agency is under investigation and it's part of the probe into an air crash airport that killed fifty in november investigators consider some of the

russian pilots license dubious find out the details online plus. president obama's afghan policy may have led to increased casualties among u.s. service personnel. the full story at r.t. dot com. right the same. first trip. and i would think that you're. on our reporters were there. and i. would be in the. it is a dream destination for millions but apparently it is a nightmare for those trying to settle down there many find it the high rent tiny flats and their poor condition just some of the things that are turning prayers

into a city of broken dreams are two stars are silly reports it all looks great on paper but anyone with an aspiration of living in central paris quickly discovers the nightmare and becomes looking for a flat here this picturesque center of the city might as well have a sign that says off limits to anyone with a tight budget but if you must prepare for very tight quarters when you first arrive to the fight i was completely shocked because this was the smallest area that i've hung myself ever but i didn't look it's from here to here. danika pay seven hundred seventy year olds for this tiny twenty square metres central paris flat in the popular lot in quarter area plus another hundred for bills and internet she chose convenience over price a choice that's not quite there for others like sabina who lives just outside paris with three other people her bedroom in the basement. but it was about five hundred

euros when i moved to so. i was looking on internet for a place with five hundred euros couldn't find anything really. expensive and i am visited a few places. couldn't find anything so i decided to look for someone to serve a close suburbs in more extreme cases not only do people end up far from the center but in apartments like this one where there's no kitchen or hot water so. it's a real problem in fronts this lack of housing we need a hundred to nine hundred thousand more housing this is what explains the high prices in july report released by france's national institute of statistics and economic studies found that one hundred forty one thousand five hundred people were without a fixed residency in france a rent control law was recently passed as part of a larger housing reform to address the lack of housing substandard conditions and the trend of people being pushed out of paris and other major cities but changes in

living standards won't come overnight a fact many in the city of lights have just come to accept to live in paris. just or so you r.t. paris. of next to no mercy for the big bankers looking to make a quick buck with max kaiser breathing down their necks once again as reported to us what you. we often see the middle east as a place of constant turmoil and revolution but people in thailand seem to be very fired up as well masses of protesters are force a government ministries to shut down by storming them with human waves one such

ministry is the time equivalent of the american f.b.i. which has been accused of killing around ninety people in a crackdown on those who support ousted prime minister taksin shinawatra who is the brother of the current leader wow people are crying out for democracy with accusations of violence against protesters so where is barack obama john kerry the mainstream media i mean whatever some group of rebels protestors are i mean freedom fighters rise up for democracy are we supposed to arm them like in syria and or bomb their country back into the stone age like in libya serbia iraq some protest explode across the mainstream media with calls for intervention and others are almost totally silent like thailand and bulgaria where there have also been strong winds of buildings less than a month ago i might be conspiracy theorist but the selective coverage and selective concern for some humans rights and off the rights of others well it smells a bit fishy to me but that's just my opinion.

welcome to the kaiser report imax kaiser. well success for david cameron's trade mission to china this week. they at downing street announced that the u.k. has won the right to export pig semen to china this is going to be a long one in a deal worth forty five million pounds per year. little piggies well rescue britain's economy for sure and exchange it appears china will win the rights to more of the ukase real income producing assets such as the h s two high speed rail link between london and those places up north that nobody ever goes not only will

china invest in the new rail network but may even build it they did a good job in america building a railroad. cameron bragged that the u.k. infrastructure is worth investing in not just by the government meanwhile back in the u.k. space frightening close talking continues police told members of the public to ignore people just as clowns if they meet them in the street alas despite the public warning the media insisted on reporting on george osborne's autumn statement oh oh stacey. max george osborne perhaps the most terrifying clown of all actually want to take a look at this image here this is a clown spotted in norfolk i'm not sure if it was george osborne but he looks quite similar with his autumn statement no one thing that was reporting on the state of the u.k. economy i think was the u.k. guilt because in the march budget ten year gilts were trading at one point eight percent with the autumn statement it's now at two point nine two percent so let's

look at some of the lies that he had to tell in order to make the economy here look better well workers' overall pay has not fallen insists george osborne george osborne is to claim that workers' overall pay has not fallen despite official figures showing that the wages of middle income families have dropped by five thousand pounds over the past five years so that's a drop of six point four percent according to the office of national statistics george osborne is saying those are a lie he's going to come out with his own report to show that in fact those numbers are deceptive yeah so much a clown as he is one of these french mine and but he speaks which is kind of interesting for a mind he's more of a friend of mine it's a part of my show and he believes that these numbers do not tell the truth these are all real aggrieved the famous french artist who would say the. people.